2018 American Transplant Congress
Comparison of Outcome in Liver Transplant Patients with Renal Insufficiency and Intraoperative CVVH
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
Background: Intraoperative continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH) is an important tool to manage liver transplant (LT) patients with renal insufficiencies. Methods: All LT patients with renal…2018 American Transplant Congress
Lab Turnaround Times: A Performance Improvement Project in Post Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic
Purpose:Patients' routine labs, including immunosuppression drug levels, are drawn with each clinic visit starting at 6am.Because the drug levels are not reported by the time…2018 American Transplant Congress
Racing to Activation: Using LEAN Principles to Effectively Manage Your Waitlist with Predicted Improved Outcomes
Introduction: In July 2017, our waitlist was approximately 950 pts, 36% which were inactive. One coordinator & one program assistant managed the kidney waitlist. Review…2018 American Transplant Congress
Greater Access to Kidney Transplantation in Competitive DSAs: Due to Improved Referral?
INTRODUCTION: For patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), access to kidney transplantation (ATT) varies across the 58 Donor Service Areas (DSAs) of the United States,…2018 American Transplant Congress
De Novo Donor Specific Antibodies in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients Are Highly Responsive to Therapy
Pediatric Nephrology, Lucile Packard Children´s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA.
Background: Pediatric Kidney transplant recipients who develop dnDSAs are at increased risk of allograft loss and rapid decline in GFR. C1q+ DSA, in particular, is…2018 American Transplant Congress
Early Utilization of Telehealth in Kidney Transplantation
Transplant Institute, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH.
Introduction: Telehealth is an emerging strategy to improve outcomes and decrease emergency department visits and readmissions. Utility of telehealth in kidney transplantation hasn't been much…2018 American Transplant Congress
GDF15 Preventing Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury
1University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; 2Jilin University, ChangChun, China.
Rationale: Ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury still remains one of main causes of early renal dysfunction in kidney transplantation. There are no effective treatments for preventing…2017 American Transplant Congress
Genomic Analysis of Gene Expression in Human Kidney Transplants Identifies Moxd1 as a Key Driver for Renal Fibrosis.
Chronic allograft injury (CAI), characterized histologically by high chronic allograft dysfunction index (CADI) score on biopsy, is known to be a major determinant of graft…2017 American Transplant Congress
Time to Kidney Transplantation Following Live Donor Candidate Referral.
Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Kidney transplant candidates have utilized novel methods to identify and refer willing donors; however, delays or barriers to actually achieving live donor kidney transplantation are…2017 American Transplant Congress
Accepting a High-KDPI Kidney versus Waiting for Another Offer Can Improve Chances of a Functioning Graft.
1Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Less than 50% of waitlisted candidates undergo a first deceased donor transplant within 5 years. Yet approximately 20% of recovered kidneys and >50% of kidneys…
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